EPISODE
SEASON
SCHEDULE
The Orville - Season 1
The adventures of the research ship team are followed, while they function in the Earth's intersedereal fleet, 400 years in the future.
4 December 1954, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
10 September 1985, Regina, Saskatchewan, Canada
27 October 1953, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA
15 July 1980, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
11 February 1970, Mansfield, Ohio, USA
15 December 1964, Shafer, Minnesota, USA
30 September 1980, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
16 February 1976, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
12 June 2006, USA
September 10, 2017
While The Orville clearly demonstrates its fondness for a show that promised to boldly go where others hadn't, it feels like MacFarlane and his crew are taking a sizable step backwards.
September 10, 2017
In his first significant live-action TV role, Mr. MacFarlane's main attribute is a nervous proficiency. Ed may have to grow into his command, but that doesn't mean he should be the least memorable person on the bridge.
September 10, 2017
It's a mystery how Fox cleared such a blatant knockoff.
September 08, 2017
MacFarlane never seems comfortable leading the charge with a phaser in hand, and comes off more like a man cosplaying a space captain than an actual, believable one.
September 08, 2017
The only unique sounds made by "The Orville" are things we wish we'd never heard.
September 10, 2017
I share MacFarlane's yearning for the lost wonder of Star Trek, but I don't need to watch brand new C-level Next Generation episodes, especially not when some creative force behind the scenes keeps tossing out unfunny crude gags.
September 10, 2017
The humor tends to be flat and sophomoric, and the clichéd action tropes merely routine, neither funny nor exciting enough to soar the way it should.
September 07, 2017
As both series lead and showrunner, MacFarlane has nobody to rein in his worst impulses or augment his considerable talents. The Orville has potential but the show -- and he -- first need to get out of their own ways.
September 10, 2017
The Orville is trying so hard not to be so many things, it isn't fully any one thing. Which makes it, officially, the strangest misfire of the fall TV season.
September 11, 2017
The Orville isn't particularly funny at all, both by design and accidental ineptitude. Instead, it's a bizarrely straight-up homage to Star Trek that can't seem to admit as much.